Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 181 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Law and Legal Studies
Abortion Helpline
At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors field nonstop calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, illustrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 13 minutes
Al Djanat, the Original Paradise
After the death of her uncle, the director films her family courtyard in Burkina Faso as a dispute over the estate bursts out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonization.
Andana Films | 2023 | 83 minutes
All That I Am
The story of an extraordinarily courageous young woman on a path to recovery
GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 75 minutes
Ama
The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes
And So I Stayed
The stories of incarcerated abuse survivors fighting for their lives shows how the legal system gets domestic violence wrong
GOOD DOCS | 2021 | 91 minutes
Another Paradise
Fifty years ago the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place in order to lease the largest island to the US Navy so that it could install a military base. Now Chagossian exiles embark on a struggle to return home.
Andana Films | 2019 | 82 minutes
Anthropocene
Examines whether human impact has tipped the planet into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, with all of its political, social and behavioral implications.
Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 97 minutes
The Apology
Former 'Comfort Women' who were forced to serve Japanese troops during World War II tell their harrowing stories.
Icarus Films | 2016 | 104 minutes
As Goes Janesville
As Goes Janesville follows two years in the lives of laid off workers and local leaders to tell the story of how an auto community brought to the brink reinvents itself amid America’s worst economic crisis since The Great Depression.
371 Productions | 2012 | 87 minutes
Backfired
Investigates the largest auto scam in the world, tracing VW's deliberate installation of defeat devices in their diesel cars to circumvent California and US vehicle emissions standards.
Bullfrog Films | 2018 | 61 minutes
